[ad_1] Swiss village buried in ice-mud deluge, one person missing At least one person went missing after Birch Glacier catastrophically collapsed in the Swiss Alps, wiping off 90% of the mountain village of Blatten, which is home to 300 people. The incident took place at around 3:30 pm (local time) on Wednesday, when a large […]
[ad_1] Chinese students call measure ‘Chinese Exclusion Act’ after Rubio vows to revoke visas (Photo: AP) Chinese students studying in the US are scrambling to figure out their futures after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that some students would have their visas revoked. The US will begin revoking the visas of some […]
[ad_1] The above-ground entrance to a public shelter, which can fit around 450 people in case of crisis or war, is seen in Kongsberg, Norway (Image credit: AP) In 1944, Norwegian resistance fighters in the town of Kongsberg blew up a factory making cannons for occupying Nazi German forces during World War II. More than […]
[ad_1] Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law (ANI) WASHINGTON: A federal court on Wednesday blocked US President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set of economic policies that have rattled global financial markets, frustrated trade partners and […]
[ad_1] Authorities in the Caribbean country of St Vincent and the Grenadines say they have discovered an abandoned boat and the remains of 11 people along with passports from the west African country of Mali. The boat was found on the shores of Canouan island in the eastern Caribbean, police said in a statement Tuesday. […]
[ad_1] “If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it… But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”Liam Neeson said it in Taken. Benjamin Netanyahu turned it into policy.On October 26, 2023 — 19 days after the Hamas-led massacre on Israeli […]
[ad_1] The European Union and China must “take on global climate leadership” in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a French government source said Wednesday, ahead of a top French official’s visit to Beijing.Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France’s minister for ecological transition, is slated to meet counterparts on Thursday and Friday […]
[ad_1] National Public Radio (NPR) has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump after his administration issued an executive order to freeze all federal funding to NPR and PBS through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The order, signed in early May 2025, was presented as an effort to prevent taxpayer money from supporting what […]
[ad_1] Spain denies power grid ‘experiment’ caused giant blackout (Photo: AP) Spain’s government on Wednesday denied a press report that an “experiment” on the national power grid caused a huge blackout that crippled the Iberian Peninsula one month ago.Authorities have been scrambling to find answers after the April 28 outage cut telecommunications, halted transport and […]
[ad_1] Donald Trump’s use of the nickname “Pocahontas” to refer Senator Elizabeth Warren isn’t new, but it’s making headlines again. On May 28, 2025, President Trump’s advisor David Sacks reignited the controversy by claiming Warren controlled former President Joe Biden’s autopen, suggesting she had significant influence in his administration. The remark, widely seen as another […]
